OK here's one for singer-songwriters out there:
Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
from 1998. It's awesome and everyone should have a copy.
They didn't do much else after this which is a shame.
I wonder what he (Jeff Magnum) is up to now?

I'd love to have a cd of the Beltaine crowd's latest DJ mix. He played along to a wildlife film on Tuesday. It was a really warm, bouncy, slightly trippy, slightly cheeky, but defintately fluffy soundtrack. My mate Brian Random and me couldn't help but want to dance around daftly to it. Looked like Rowina and Laura were feeling it too. I want to making music that feels like that too!
Ninja Tune Label do stuff that has that feel too.

IVOR CUTLER " LUDO " ALBUM

A now ageing surrealist poet who the Beatles sited as a major influence. This is some mad stuff that he did with music. One of the chorus's goes " Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy, Joy, Punch " :) :)
It's kind of insanely funny in places and ... well just a little strange in others..
If I knew I had the cash I would buy this one. Wish I could afford new c.d.'s..

AIR

First Album was a classic. Second one good too.

MODERN REGGAE

I heard some stuff played by a DJ at the Bongo club's Sunday " Littlest Hobo " Evening. The singer had a great London vibe about him, It's about time we heard more of this sort of thing, music with a vibe we can relate to. Your classic reggae/dancehall sound feels kinda tired too me sometimes...

I have nill money for music really, so I try to be certain that I really like something before i buy it. There is only so much you can tell about a piece of music without hearing it, but if you can describe what it does for you a bit better, there's an outside possibility that you might convince me...

Tim and I are planning a little music exchange on May 13th... if anyone else is keen, they're welcome to it. I think we're mainly going to use external harddrives and laptops, but CD creation is a possibility too.

my cd collection was destroyed by the forest cupboard. i would like to come and take, take, take. the giving: it may be a little scratched and scarce.

but ...i will pack super girl romantic boys. and some other secret treats. although i don't have laptop technology there is little in life as joyous as overenthusiastic record swapping geekiness, and there will be mixtapes for anyone who copies me albums.

x [/i]

"We all tend to idealise kindness and tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nutcases." Sebastian Horsley

Loved them live last year at Truck festival and finally got round to getting hold of the LP. It's great, go listen. Pretty girls and cool boys with exciting voices and pleasing guitars.

Oh, and also finally bought my first Echo and the Bunnymen. Porcupine. Very much suits my current (stylish) melancholy. If you're not a dull (and hey, while I'm about it, probably stupid too) happy person it might very much suit you too.

High time this thread was revived, despite the acts of idiot culture mess forum fascists mashing the Peoples' Forum into one long section.

Anyway,

Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids

Amazing occasionally vocal, lots of instrumental electronica, with a dash of new romantic elegance from the early eighties, in an oh my god, this is 25 years old, it's all been done better before type fashion. Heard Night Porter on Radio 6 and immediately tracked it down to here. Go go go.

fourtet - remixed/es
the black keys - magic potion (new album)
jim o'rourke - eureka (an old classic - bought it again recently after my original copy was lent and never returned)
creeping bent - all their compilations
cheney, markham and gorman - pre cursor (coming soon!)
old Peel shows recorded from radio
bill wells - also in white (another one i never tire of)

Choice of the week:

everything by the High Llamas!!!!! one of my fave groups and somehow this band works even better in autumn. wish they would do a new album...

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." --John Cage.

the other project by the two main guys from STATE RIVER WIDENING. this is totally beatiful autumnal new-age post-folk ambient. give it a listen.
i waited so long for this album: my brother finally bought it on my request and gave it to a friend who was coming to visit. apparently the Leaf Label have no distribution in germany.

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." --John Cage.

Just now
Flaming Lips Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Yes Yes Yes.
Nico The Marble Inch
in-depth review and streaming here
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/al ... onth/1655/Grinderman
touch of overkill on the Kid Cave, but the man has neck, a lot of lyrical neck
'I been listenin' to the Woman's Hour, I been listenin' to Garden Question Time/ But everything I try to grow, I can't even grow a dandelion'
Some excerpts from the phenomena of 'number stations'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_stationsDie Tödliche Doris Tanz im Quadrat
and three other songs from the Berlin Super 80 Boxed Set
http://www.monitorpop-entertainment.de/ ... 103&id=121which I would stump up full cash just to re-see the video to
Klaus Beyer: Die Glatze
Some Joe Meek outtakes who I was hipped to on 6Radio's The Freak Zone which Ryan duly burnt me.
That's how for now, anyway isn't Chinese Democracy being released this week.

Cat Stevens - 4CD Boxset - In Search Of The Centre Of The Universe.
Very, very good body of work. This guy is underestimated + somewhat misunderstood. Definitely deserves a reappraisal. He's written an awful lot of great songs. Plus he's got a story that goes to interesting places and is worth checking out in itself.

Which leads to...

Yusuf - An Other Cup.
If you think 14 years wait for Chinese Democracy is a tad excessive check out the 28 years for this album, released a few months ago. If you don't know about this guy and what happened to him in between check it out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_IslamListening to the box set followed by this, the length of time involved is hardly perceptable, but there is a definite evolution. This one is really good and some of his best work is on this new one.

Autopilot's 'Devil went down on Betty' (mashup of Devil went down to Georgia and Black Betty) and Gainsbourg's '69 Anne Erotique' don't really count. And I don't think 'Everybody Was Tongue-Fu Fighting' and 'Another One Bites the Muff' actually exist.

re: going down on a lady
there's of course, 'don't let the son go down on me'.
Julian Cope Pristeen, used as a curious metaphor for the ravages of mother earth. Moving on from Funkadelic's 'mother earth is pregnant for y'all have knocked her up'
'I went down on Pristeen, now how much does it take? To go down, on someone, someone that you hate'.
Which is all just a unnecessary preamble to state that I'm listening to
Sister Vanilla - Little Pop Rock
she's the sister of the Jesus and the Mary Chain Reid brothers.
It's in a similar vain to Sometimes Always the song from the duets album where they callaborated with her from Mazzy Star.
It's just a beautiful velvety, evergreen yet plaintive album and sets you up in a great space.

-kræka6 compilation (digital kranky) - they used the last track from PSv3
-gudrun gut: i put a record on
-international dj gigolos cd ten
-pre cursor by cheney, markham and gorman OUT NOW! (what do you mean you can't find it in your local record store?!)

Spent the last week transforming the daiPOD into a month-long mixtape ahead of the big travel trip.
Best of the new additions
Panda Bear Person Pitch.
It sounds like the Beach Boys playing in the room down the corridor but the room down the corridor actually exists in the sixties.
I can't wrap my head around it
Imagine having a 1 inch Brian Wilson trapped in a miniature musical box, with his own tiny sandpit, writing Smile and as happy as a clam.
It comes with minimalist precision painstaking applied in order to make a cluttered but beautifully arranged mosaic.
One for the headphones.
Pop fact: Brian Wilson only ever took acid twice, I think the damage stems from when his dad made him take a shit on the kitchen floor.
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See you in June
Look out for
Club 33-45 Mixtape Night:'Planet Of The Tapes'
and
'Genderfuck II - The Boys Are Back In Gowns'
D
x

oh and i noticed back there in March that you were talking about songs about going down on girls.
I can think of:
All My Life- by the Foo Fighters lyric examples: "If I get any closer, iAnd if you open up wideAnd if you let me insideOn and on, Ive got nuthin to hide" or
"Hey, dont let it go to wasteI love it but, I hate that taste"

and possibly Hakuna Matata from the Lion King"And, oh, the shameThought-a changin' my nameAnd I got downheartedEv'rytime that I...go down on a girl (i may have added that bit but pretty sure thats what they sang)[Timon:] Hey, not in front of the Kids[Pumba:] Oh, sorry.[Both:] Hakuna Matata!"

My boss at work is thinking through his collection of thousands of Punk and rock Lp's form the 60's and 70's so i'm sure he'll get back to me with some obscure things...I'll keep you posted.

My latest contribution would be !!! or 'chk chk chk' for pronounciation purposes. Guitary stuff with a touch of psychedelia, and great great basslines.

Got a song called 'All My Heroes Are Weirdos', how could you not.

For obscurity show offery, Peter Wyngarde. Somewhat eccentric actor who starred as suave crime novelist Jason King, and was pretty huge in the late sixties / early seventies. Made this one album, which got banned a few days after its release on LP. Re-released on CD at some stage titled 'When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head'. I've only heard one song on radio and I'm excited. Tracked it down and ordered from http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/.

!!!
all my friends are weirdos
untouchable title, need to know it
thehemulen's choices are harder to track down
but i have racked up
the high llamas
once when I wrote reviews
a review for an earlier album
i got them muddled
with the Llama Farmers
my review was rare and glowing
but i turned it in with the wrong band name
of course
no one picked up on the error
editor or reader
the whole episode humbled and depressed me
i lost the album to an ex-girlfriend
anyway i will listen to the downloads
and add my two honest two cents
to give the thread some dynamic
so look out
especially arthur russell
first thought best thought
i've d/loaded on beat references alone